A Web of Intimacies
Imagine doing hospitality, pastoral care, community – building, worship, Bible study, hymn sing, teaching, theology, spirituality, learning, questioning, sharing, amongst much else, all at the […]
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Do Something
Early in his book, You Want Me to … WHAT?, Norm Grant tells the story of Mary Clarke, an otherwise happy and content woman, on […]
The Vision Thing
I had lunch once with a very successful documentary filmmaker. We talked about the business side of making documentaries in Canada—there are a lot of […]
Church Mourns Death of Servant Minister
Arthur Van Seters, the only person to have served as a teacher and senior administrator at all three of the Presbyterian Church’s seminaries, passed away […]
Frustrated Visions
‘Vision’ is an awkward word. We know what it means, or think we know what it means, but rarely use it properly. ‘Visioning,’ the verb […]
Leading From Subtext
We published an article in the April issue which involved a daughter accusing her father of incest. The offence occurred before he was a minister. […]
Rebuild Our Connections
This is the story of two presbyteries – though I think of many – and two surveys. Both presbyteries participated at the Emmaus Conference in […]
Ask Me About My Church
Over the 900 metres from my front door to my daughter’s school, I see a lot of handbills on hydro posts. There are the usual […]
Christians Without Borders
In the October 2007 issue I wrote about my visit to Afghanistan and introduced readers to Engineer Nejabat Khan Safi. He is director for a […]
Am I Just I?
What a year. My mother died. My church of 40 years closed. Oh Lord, why have you forsaken me? What a year. My mother died. […]
Twitterings
“Social media can’t provide what social change has always required,” argues Malcolm Gladwell in the Oct. 4 issue of the New Yorker in a fascinating […]
What’s the Story?
We don’t always get it right. Or, I suppose I should say, for every article published in the Record, there is always another perspective. At […]
The Guru Tour
When Gateway Community Church, Toronto, where I had been a worshipper, member and elder, over nearly 40 years, was dissolved by presbytery this summer, it […]
Representative Presbyter
My reflections on General Assembly can be found on pccweb.ca/presbyterianrecord. In this space I’d like to share a conversation I had on the plane with […]
Identity Crisis
“Moderator, its not Presbyterian.”
Double Plays
Watching Tony Fernandez turn a double play is amongst the most beautiful things I have seen in my life. He would run, scooping down towards […]
Ethnicity, identity & isolation
Canadians seem to have forgotten that multiculturalism didn’t begin with Pierre Trudeau. He extended policies begun by Lester B. Pearson and opened wide the immigration […]
A Vulnerable Voice
Rev. David Webber — author of the monthly For the Journey column — and I live in two worlds which couldn’t be further apart. As […]